But just across the Bay Bridge in Oakland, something a bit different is going on. The Oakland Roots have made the Oakland Coliseum their home. The concrete monolith was once home of the NFL’s Oakland ...

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Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Let’s go back to the late ’90s, when radio rap wasn’t a wasteland and underground hip-hop had yet to swallow itself. The Roots were ...